Would You Rather
Dear Jessica Brennan, Over the time of our Covid-19 incarceration, Dad and I have played a few times, a little game called “Would You Rather”. What 2 meals would you …
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When I Was a Little Girl
Dear Jessica Brennan, I’m not sure if you know these women who taught me as a young girl by coming through a television screen into my squeaky clean, very white, …
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Looking Forward
Dear Jessica Brennan, We have all learned so much this year, and I know that personally, things have started to come into focus that I had let get a bit …
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Trophies
Dear Jessica Brennan, Sometimes I catch myself talking about the pain I have endured in my life as though it is a trophy. “Look at how much I have suffered. …
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Shame Butterflies
Dear Jessica Brennan, Shame is such a powerful emotion. People like Brene Brown have spent their entire careers studying it and what it does to people’s bodies, their confidence and …
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At Your Age
Dear Jessica Brennan, When I was thirteen I wanted to go on a two week wilderness canoeing trip with a few chaperones and lots of kids who were older teenagers. …
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Sitting in Suffering
Dear Jessica Brennan, When your grandma, my mum, was dying a little over a year ago, I spent a lot of time sitting. Sitting by her bedside, quietly listening to …
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You’re On Mute
Dear Jessica Brennan, During the isolation and working-from-home that many of us have experienced this year, I, like most of the working world have spent hundreds of hours on hundreds …
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A Friend in Every Decade
Dear Jessica Brennan, If you want the answer to a complex question, ask a six-year old. They will simplify the most complicated issue down to basic steps like, “Maybe you …
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Hopeless by Choice
Dear Jessica Brennan, I have been heard from time to time (daily) telling Dad that he’s hopeless. It doesn’t bother him, because for the most part he is hopeless by …
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